According to Aikman (1999), the impact of large industries and big business have been responsible for the decimation of the traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples. For example, hunting, food gathering, and subsistence agriculture are a crucial aspect to indigenous lifeways and women play a significant role in sustaining these cultural practices. Arakmbut women are the agriculturalists, who plant and tend swidden gardens and cook the meat or fish that the men bring from the forest and rivers. Arakmbut women contribute equally to their informal economy like their male counterparts. However, access to quality and accessible educational practices that promote the use of these women’s literacies has not been addressed. Including the everyday